Lexx (1997)

Despite that the bulk of Lexx's creature and spaceship effects were realized via CGI, some practical effects were utilized in its earlier episodes; for the first series, Tony Kenny was special effects supervisor, with Michael Peterson as puppeteer. The first season's opening pilot movie, 'I Worship His Shadow' utilized puppet effects for the close-up shots of the worm-like Cluster Lizards.

The large Cluster Lizard puppet had to be operated by Peterson 'wearing' the puppet like a costume that only went down to his waist, and operating the mouth movements from inside; he found the process unpleasant, as the puppet was cumbersome and hard to manipulate, as well as limiting his vision inside.

A smaller Cluster Lizard puppet was made for some other shots, and later for the domesticated 'Squish' in the first season finale 'Giga Shadow'; this was merely a hand puppet and thus far easier for Peterson to operate, as it was the sort of puppeteering he already had experience on, working on Labyrinth and Fraggle Rock.

The second season's opener, 'Mantrid', had Chris Creatures (aka puppeteer Chris Kunzmann) listed for its creature effects credit, presumably for the large puppet made for the dormant Giga Shadow grub; the puppet is mostly seen only lying down but had mechanisms allowing the mandibles to open and close, as well as move the segmented body sections as if the creature was pulsating. For most of its screentime when awakened, the Giga Shadow grub was realized via CGI.